1917 vs. 1918

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Originally posted by Edward Tinker

The answer also lies in what country you are in. Didn't a lot of WW1 souveners make it back to Australia?
Ed

Yes they did , we fought at Gallipoli and the western front between 1915 and 1918 . Population at the time was 5 million . 300,000 enlisted . 59,000 dead and 159,000 wounded . 72% casualties . Virtually every family in the country lost a member . It was by far our worst war .

So many Maxims came back that when WW2 started and there was a shortage of machineguns they started a refurbishment programme to re-chamber them to .303 for service . The programme was curtailed when we started making Vickers and Brens at Lithgow.